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Two Women on the Shore

1898 / 1906-1907

Edvard Munch

Associated Names

Edvard Munch

Artist, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

Edvard Munch

Printer, Norwegian, 1863 - 1944

The image consists of flowing, abstract shapes and lines with a contrast between bold and soft outlines. There are abstract shapes resembling a cloaked figure in black and a standing figure with long, red hair and a white dress. The background includes shapes that mimic hills or a shoreline. The color and form evoke familiar objects like a person walking near a rocky outcrop or shoreline, against a backdrop that can be reminiscent of a misty valley or seascape.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color woodcut and linoleum cut with embossing on wove paper
Credit Line

Print Purchase Fund (Rosenwald Collection) and Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Dimensions

image (irregular): 40.3 x 51.9 cm (15 7/8 x 20 7/16 in.)
sheet: 47.4 x 59 cm (18 11/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

1978.15.2
Catalogue Raisonné

Woll 2001, no. 133, State iii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

2001

The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

2003

"Edvard Munch -- Theme and Variation", Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, 2003, no. 106.

2013

Edvard Munch: A 150th Anniversary Tribute, NGA, 2013.

Bibliography

1907

Schiefler, Gustav. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werks Edvard Munchs bis 1906. vol. 1. Berlin, 1907 (reprinted 1974); and Schiefler, Gustav. Edvard Munch. Das graphische Werk 1906-1926. vol. 2. Berlin, 1927. (reprinted 1974).

2001

Woll, Gerd. Edvard Munch: The Complete Graphic Works. New York, 2001.

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: at upper left in brown ink in later hand: Nr. 87 [written upsidedown]

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65567885

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